Clef - Two-factor authentication from the future.
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Their site is a bit terse. It uses the touch id on the iPhone, that part is good. It can call back to pin. What do you do when you lose your phone (like I did two weeks ago?)
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@scottalanmiller said:
What do you do when you lose your phone (like I did two weeks ago?)
http://support.getclef.com/article/32-what-should-i-do-if-my-phone-is-lost-or-stolen
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@anonymous said:
@scottalanmiller said:
What do you do when you lose your phone (like I did two weeks ago?)
http://support.getclef.com/article/32-what-should-i-do-if-my-phone-is-lost-or-stolen
So you are screwed. "Get a news device" isn't an acceptable fallback solution for those of us who travel internationally. Imagine telling your CEO "well, you've lost all access until you can get to a place with a replacement phone."
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It's a neat idea, but there needs to be a cumbersome fallback in case of emergencies.
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They say that the authentication tools can be install on tablets but it is not supported. What weirdness is going on that they care about the size of the device and not the OS? This concerns me a little. Are there other dependencies that they are not disclosing? Like a working cell signal in additional to WiFi?
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When my phone went into the water, my office had to disable all of my two factor remotely because there was no fallback. The only fallback was to go to normal passwords. At least there was a fallback. But it only worked because there was a central admin able to shut it off remotely.
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@anonymous said:
@scottalanmiller said:
What do you do when you lose your phone (like I did two weeks ago?)
http://support.getclef.com/article/32-what-should-i-do-if-my-phone-is-lost-or-stolen
how does this work if your email is Clef protected? You lose the ability to deactivate!!
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They might have answers, but the more I look at this, the less it feels thought through. As someone who travels, the severe risk of losing access is something I am always thinking about. Losing email, texting, phone, web, etc. all at once is terrifying. You can't book flights, get a rental car, pay your bills, contact a bank, etc. It's very scary.
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If you are dealing with really high security stuff where you'd rather burn your data than have any risk at all of it being compromised, then I could see this making sense. But nearly everyone needs access more than they need security. This feels like putting yourself at risk of at least issues if not crisis to protect against something less likely to happen.
Nearly everyone I know has lost a phone at some point (broken to some degree.) Or just had a phone die on them. I know almost no one who has had major systems hacked. Both happen often, but one is, I feel, many times more common.
